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In reply to the discussion: How Americans Really Feel About Drugs [View all]Uncle Joe
(64,911 posts)Newt Gingrich; a would be war criminal and promoter of torture was given far more coverage by the corporate media than Ron Paul after Iowa in spite of finishing fourth to Paul's third place finish, Paul would fall to the bottom Libertarian Qaudrant of your graph.
The corporate supremacist loving corporate media was already preparing to say that Iowa didn't count if Paul had won.
I watched the major prime time news networks Wed. night and not a one of them mentioned Paul except Paul Schaeffer of CBS for about five seconds reminding them not to forget Paul when they mentioined the top candidates. I believe someone behind the camera must of clued Schaeffer in on to the corporate frame after that because he had a funny look on his face and said "of course Paul can't win" and the anchor asking questions of Schaeffer had a cat ate the canary expression on his face as well immediately after Schaeffer qualified himself.
This is a prime example of corporate media manipulation, they want an authoritarian government willing to squeeze the people on behalf of the major corporations. The corporate media's moist dream is a government firmly in the right wing authoritarian quadrant, because that would most serve to divide the people making them easier to conquer, abuse and subvert.